STT-MRAM has been considered as one of the most promising nonvolatile memory candidates in the next-generation of computer architecture. However, the read reliability and dynamic write power concerns greatly hinder its practical application. In this ...

Convolution serves as the basic computational primitive for various associative computing tasks ranging from edge detection to image matching. CMOS implementation of such computations entails significant bottlenecks in area and energy consumption due to ...

Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm to improve the efficiency of computing systems by leveraging the intrinsic resilience of applications to their computations being executed in an approximate manner. Prior efforts on approximate hardware ...

Limited endurance problem and low cell reliability are main challenges of phase change memory (PCM) as an alternative to DRAM. To further prolong the lifetime of a PCM device, there exist a number of techniques that can be grouped in two categories: 1) ...